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by constantcrying 135 days ago
Why do you think that it is a given that politicians perform better in school? Here in Germany many prominent politicians were academic failures or dropouts.

We had student council elections, where the candidates were listed by degree and the semester, the trend was overwhelmingly that the candidates were in semesters after the usual graduation date, often having studied for more then 5 years.

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> Why do you think that it is a given that politicians perform better in school?

Non sequitur? Where was this even remotely claimed?

I said that student activists struggled academically, your counter point was that at your school student activists made it into high political offices.

What other interpretation of your words could there be except you believing that people in high political offices are above average students.